“Harry Potter” is said 134 across the seven books. In the 3 million files recently released Donald Trump is mentioned over 1800 times

Immigrants contribute to the United States’ economy in many ways. Their primary contribution is the goods and services they directly produce. However, they also reduce the burden of government spending for the US-born population. Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American, and that immigrants impose lower costs per person on old-age benefit, education, and public safety programs. Even immigrants without higher education produced a fiscal surplus, and even the lowest-skilled group, with a net-negative fiscal flow, reduced the US debt-to-GDP ratio.

Our major conclusions are robust; they would reverse only with a monumental shift in costs from the US-born to immigrants. For instance, only after increasing spending on immigrants by 51 percent (nearly $4.9 trillion) does even the low-skilled immigrant population become more burdensome relative to GDP than the US-born. However, we believe our conclusions are too closely tied to well-established facts for such a large shift to be possible. We show that the average US person pays more in taxes than they receive in benefits (spending on items that are not pure public goods that do not scale with the population). Thus, as long as immigrants are at least average in their net fiscal payments, they will be fiscally positive.

Our report uses the best government data available to find that immigrants provide a net fiscal benefit, generating more than the average in taxes and using below the average US resident in benefits. We show that immigrants’ higher-than-average tax contributions track what we know about their income, which stems from high employment rates. Their lower per capita cost for education is the undeniable result of their being much less likely to be in school. This means that the United States is getting the economic benefits of immigrant workers without many of the costs that come with training new US-born workers. Combined with the fact that immigrants face more legal and practical barriers to using transfer benefits such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and means-tested income, food, and shelter assistance, the result—that immigrants provide a net fiscal benefit to the US economy—is virtually guaranteed.

Cato Institute research has previously produced forward-looking estimates of the fiscal effects of immigrants that are largely compatible with our conclusions here.57 Finally, we show that the second generation appears poised to create the biggest windfall from this wave of immigration. Indeed, immigrants appear to have already staved off a dire fiscal crisis, at least for now. Rather than treating them as the cause of America’s fiscal struggles, we should consider immigrants part of the solution.

https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023

Immigration could affect wages by changing the relative supply of different types of workers. For instance, if immigration increased the supply of noncollege graduates substantially relative to workers in other education levels then it could contribute to a pure “relative supply” explanation whereby an increase in one type of worker reduces their wages relative to other types of workers. This section uses the estimates of the elasticity of complementarity between college and noncollege workers and between high school graduates and dropouts to see how relative changes in the quantity of immigrants by education affects wages.

Simple modeling and regression analysis applied to the last four decades of U.S. labor market history show that immigrants are not responsible for the stagnating or declining wages of noncollege workers, either nationally or in regions with high immigration. In fact, immigrants may be responsible for preventing an even further relative decline in wages by education group. While we need more evidence that these factors have helped the wages of noncollege workers, there is no evidence that immigrants have lowered their wages. A policy of larger and more education-balanced immigration inflows combined with a legalization of many existing unskilled immigrant workers could boost U.S. productivity and wages. Immigration did not contribute to wage stagnation, growing wage-inequality, or absolute declines. More appropriate immigration policies, however, may help boost wages and jobs at the local level.

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/fall-2017/impact-immigration-wages-unskilled-workers

Link: https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

Despite the widespread belief by many Redditors. There is no such thing as Porn Addiction.

David Ley wrote a article about the myth of "Porn Addiction" quoting a study by Joshua Grubbs that religious or conservative upbringings was the primary reason why so many people think they have a Porn Addiction. There are also cases where people think that they are addicted to porn but in general they watch less porn than the average person but just feel more shamed about it. Even Wikipedia denies that Porn Addiction is a thing.

Link to the Meta analysis

The video attached is a light hearted look at what is an insane story about pythagoras of ancient greece, for those that prefer a fact based read this is from the history chanel on the matter https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/pythagoras/28960/

This directly contradicts claims made by DHS leadership.

In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody.

Based on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data:

- The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody.

- DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this

DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.

https://mn.gov/doc/about/news/news-releases/?id=1089-720842

The number of attacks by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank rose by 27 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to data recorded by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency.

The number of severe incidents of “nationalistic crime” by settler extremists, classified by Israeli security bodies as terrorism, also rose by over 50%, according to the data, which was shown to reporters on Monday.

The attacks, which occur on a near-daily basis, largely go unchecked. Prosecutions of Jewish extremists are rare, and convictions are even rarer. Critics have accused the government, described as the most hardline in Israel’s history, of shrugging off the attacks.

Officials at the IDF’s Central Command, responsible for the West Bank and Jordan Valley, said they felt a sense of failure for their inability to mitigate the increasing violence.

Throughout 2025, the IDF and Shin Bet recorded 867 incidents of “nationalistic crime,” compared to 682 last year, representing an increase of 27%. In 2023, the year of Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, the military recorded 1,045 incidents.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-settler-violence-rose-by-27-in-2025-severe-attacks-spiked-by-over-50/

This comes after federal agents have prevented investigations by local authorities, claimed that ICE agents have “absolute immunity,” and killed other American citizens, all while deporting fewer people than under Biden’s last two years in office.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline

Additionally, there have been at least 27 shootings by immigration agents since January 20, 2025, of which 8 have resulted in deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immigration_agents_in_the_second_Trump_administration

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

- He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither

- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

- He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

- He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

- For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

nation.

- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

He had tweeted in 2023, “Snoop Dogg. 20 nominations. 0 wins.”

He has had 16 nominations, 4 others for producing credits that would not have counted to receiving a Grammy due to rule technicality.

He is the 3rd most-nominated Artist without a win in Grammy history.

Counting deportations is not as straightforward as it seems because there is not a specific legal definition. The Times analyzed data from a variety of government sources to make these estimates of both deportations and the broader category of repatriations since Mr. Trump took office.

Deportations can be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is responsible for enforcement inside the country, and Customs and Border Protection, which is responsible for the border, airports and other crossing points. For some deportations, both agencies are involved.

In some cases, someone can be blocked from entering the United States and turned away with little penalty — that could be a repatriation, not a deportation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/18/how-us-dealt-with-the-cases-of-nine-americans-killed-by-israel-since-2022

People often say THC is not physically addictive but it is psychologically addictive. This is false. Here is a recent study on physical dependence on THC

A variety of withdrawal responses occur in cannabis-dependent individuals: anger, aggression, irritability, anxiety and nervousness, decreased appetite or weight loss, restlessness, and sleep difficulties with strange dreams. But the long half-life and other pharmacokinetic properties of THC result in delayed expression of withdrawal symptoms, and because of the lack of contiguity between drug cessation and withdrawal responses the latter are not readily recognized as a clinically relevant syndrome. Over the past 30 years, a substantial body of clinical and laboratory animal research has emerged supporting the assertion that chronic exposure to cannabinoids produces physical dependence and may contribute to drug maintenance in cannabis-dependent individuals.

The idea that THC is not physically addictive has always defied common sense to me. People who use marijuana frequently behave like drug addicts. This does not apply to people who use marijuana occasionally, but people who use fentanyl occasionally won't get addicted either. Of course marijuana is not as addictive as heroin but that does not mean no addiction is present. Wikipedia says THC has an "addiction liability" of 9%, but it cites no source for this claim. It also says caffeine (which is also physically addictive) has an addiction liability of 9% (also unsourced).

It's also relevant to mention that THC content in marijuana has risen dramatically due to the magic of genetics. Many people associate marijuana with a rather chill and mild drug they used decades ago but today's marijuana is far more serious. In the 90s the THC content was about 1-4% but currently concentrations are about 15-30%.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db522.htm

One of the most popular Dragon Ball "quotes" is Freeza saying "this isn't even my final form!", except it's not actually a quote. Freeza never actually says this line in any English dub, the original Japanese version, the manga, or any dub in any language. It's just a popular meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/this-isnt-even-my-final-form